Page 72 of Storm and Tempest

Four didn’t take his attention from Jax. The vial of blood in his hand, Jax grasping his wrist. “We need this so we can help her,” Four said.

“What’s wrong?”

“Why are you talking to him?” The other guy reached for the blood and took the vials. “Cut your losses and let’s go before the crazy one comes back.”

Jax snapped the wrist toward him, pulling the other man down in a jerky move. The older man’s head swung forward and cracked into Jax’s forehead with as much force as if Jax had slammed his head into Four’s. The older man fell back, swearing a blue streak.

The other guy snatched up the stun gun, and Jax heard him messing with a new cartridge. Getting ready to hit Jax again with another round of electricity.

Jax swung around and slammed his elbow into the man’s chest, and he fell back. Jax found the room to scramble across the floor to where his gun had landed close to a flash drive. He snatched up the gun, rolled onto his back, and saw the two men already running down the hall.

He squeezed off three shots, his aim all over the place so that he fired wildly at the hallway walls and the ceiling. The men ducked as they ran and disappeared around a corner.

All Jax could do was slump back onto the floor, breathing hard. He lay there, staring at the ceiling, and realized he couldhear someone headed this way from the other direction. He managed to roll again, lying on his stomach and aiming at the man who rounded the corner.

Ramon lifted his hands. “Whoa, just me. Us.”

Behind him were Zeyla and Maizie. Jax moved his finger off the trigger and laid his forehead on the ground. Breathing hard, trying not to throw up.

“Jax.” Maizie touched his shoulder.

He turned his shoulder first and rolled to his back with his eyes closed. “They took my blood. Said they needed my genetic profile. For the baby.”

Maizie touched Jax’s chest, and he reached up to lay his hand on hers. “I found her medical information in the computer system here. It looked like they deleted all the files, but nothing is ever really gone, so I recovered it. I think it’s her, and if it is, then she’s definitely pregnant.”

Jax opened his eyes. “She was here?”

Maizie nodded. “A few days after she was taken, they checked her in here.”

Ramon said, “You can have this conversation on the move. I’m driving.”

Zeyla nodded. “That team will be right behind us.”

Jax shifted and sat up, but there was no strength in him. “You’ll have to help me.”

Ramon hauled him up, Jax’s arm across his shoulders.

“This is ridiculous,” Jax said.

“Deal with it.” Ramon led him back to the breezeway between buildings.

“They’ll know we came this way.”

Zeyla stepped around him and Ramon. “We’ll deal. You just worry about walking.” She opened the door at the far end and checked on the other side. “It’s clear.” She frowned. “Why is it clear?”

“They didn’t follow us,” Maizie replied.

“Maybe they left with Four and Five.” Jax could carry a little of his own weight now but was still shaky.

Leaning on these people, and Ramon specifically, wasn’t somewhere he’d ever thought he’d be. At least not without Kenna. Jax didn’t even want to think about the fact his wife was pregnant.

He needed their help to find Kenna now more than ever.

“Maizie.” He couldn’t see her, but she’d hear him. “Can you hack the surveillance? Find out where Four and Five went. We need to follow them back to the source.”

“They might lead us to Kenna?”

“We have to try.” They needed to know whereDominatushad their hideouts. Uncover every one until they found where she was being kept.